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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-04-08

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1976-04-08, page 01

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VOL. 54 NO. 15
APRILS. 1!>7<>-NISAN 8
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name , . .
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Rabbinical Assembly Defeats Move To Replace Jewish Law, Standards Committee
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Report Nixon Obsessed By Fear that 'Jewish Cabal' Was Out To Get Him
NEW YORK (WNS) - Former President. Njxon was obsessed jvith a fear that there was a "Jewish cabal" out to "get" him, according to "The Final Days," a new book by Bob
Woodward and t Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post-reporters who cracked the Watergate scandal. According to an excerpt in Newsweek, the authors said Secretary of StateiHenry A.
Temple Dinner Honors Rabbi
The first Tifereth Israel- Isrdel Dinner, off State honoring Kapbi David W. Zisenwine is • scheduled to
highly coveted David Ben- Gurion Award * will be conferred on Rabbi Zisenwine,
\The Israel Dinner of State, to be held under the aegis of y State of Israel Bonds.' will highlight .the kindling of 28 lights' .celebrating-- Israel's. 28th anniversary, The. Menorah used by the late President Zalman Shazar at Israels 25th anniversary, will be brought to Columbus for the .occasion, Ben
Kissinger "was convinced that the President was anti- Semitic." The two "reporters said: "As the son of German Jews who had fled the Nazis, he (Kissinger) » was particularly sensitive 'to what he regarded in Nixon as a dangerous brand of anti- Jewish prejudice born ol ignorance.'He saw in the President' an antagonistic, gut ,; reaction which stereotyped-; Jews and convinced,Nixon that they
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GROSSINGER. N.Y.. (JTA) - The 76th annual
convention of the Rabbinical
Assembly overwhelmingly rejected March 30 a resolution that would have - "dissolved and replaced the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards with a new committee to function on an advisory basis." The decision, made after a heated debate, was precipitated by recent
"rulings on the status of women in the synagogue, particularly a 1973 decision that women cotlld be counted in a minyan. The. Law
. Committee, . which was established in its present form in 1948, has made policy rulings for the guidance of Conservative rabbis on such subjects as
; marriage and divorce. But Mitzvahs, kashruth, the Agunah problem and mixed .
.seating, as welNas other aspects ol the place oi women in Judaism. According to Rabbi Seymour Siegel, ; Professor of -*^PheOlogy« <at . thtk -/Juwfetv Theological Seminary.' the Conservative seminary, the law committee, of which he is chairman, has been charged with responsibility ot interpreting Jewish. Law lor the Conservative, movement. In addition to -inquiries Irom rabbis about problems, the committee has also attempted to make Jewish LaW relevant and responsive to-the needs pi the Jews of our time."
He also said the "decisions ol the - committee have reflected the various views of the members of the Rabbinical, Assembly. Where there "is no unanimity," he explained, "the local rabbi may decide which of the options presented by Jewish Law he wishes to institute in his congregation." The'defeated resolution, which was
presented to Hie resolutions committee by Itabbi David Novak of Baltimore on behali ol a group ol more
traditionally minded
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Abba Eban Will Speak At Mershon
Abba Eban noted Israeli statesman will speak at Mershon Auditorium on Monday. April 12, at 8 pm. Eban's visit to Columbus is sponsored by the Israel Action Committee in
answering member, 'Halachic
, .*.^-% Al'lia Khan cooperation'' with Hillel
- Foundation Student Board and ihe " Israeli' Students Organization.
Mr. Eban has served-in many Capacities, Among, them - lirst Israel ambassador to the'lf.N., deputy prime-minister \ in ,Levi Eshkol's government, education minister and
> loreigaaffairs minister. Mr. Ebari is currently a member of, the Israeli Knesset. ,
members, would have seriously curtailed the authority of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and changed the makeup of the membership ofa successor committee.
At an earlier session. Itabbi Wolle Kclman. who marked his 25th anniversary as a leader of Conservalivi** Judaism. expressed optimism about Ihe future or American Judaism, The executive vice-president of the luoo-mcmbcr association of Conservative rab|>is said lie doesn't "mourn for tin* good old days" but rather, feels that this is "one of Ihe most dynamic periods of • Jewish history." lie told the
1 convention delegates, in response to tributes - from many of his associates that Judaism despite, the problem of changing neighlHirhiMxls. economic inflation ami a. diminished birth rate, is at "the threshold of a crcatiu* age which has been unsurpassed. in recent centuries," Kvlimm noted particularly M\c.
-^phenomenon in Judaism, of- Hie steady flow of Ihe "biial
- leshuvah" ~ the returning
- ones - often vvhjisc parents disregarded religion*, with the new generation, rediscovering the laith of their grandparents. .He expressed Ix-lief tlmt a great many American Jews have - "moved away (rom an age suspicious^." ol emot ion. skeptical" about the
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International Harvester Co. Gets Anti-Arab Boycott Vote
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) — In the first vote ol a nationwide campaign, shareholders ' of International Harvester last week cast 1,200,000 votes (or 5.2"percent of the total).in lavor of a resolution
A Bicentennial Haggadah
Goodman Margulies announced.
Rabbi Zisenwine.
and Julius co-chairmen.
Rabbi David Zisenv. ine
take place en Thursday/ evening, April 29lh/ at Tifereth Israel. One of the highest Israeli awards, the
David W.
Distinguished leader for the faith of Israel, (he people ol Israel and the land of Israel,,' Rabbi Zisenwine has won the love and esteem of Congregation
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By Robert E.Segal (\ Seven Arts Feature)
"Its progenitors were an impoverished Condon hatter and' the repentant son of a Presbyterian minister."
With these inviting words, the Jewish Publication Society, in this season of the American > Bicentennial, Introduces a small but attractive reprint of the first American Passover Haggadah — "a modest volume in Hebrew and English."
Published-in New York in 1837 in Hebrew and English, this first American edition of the Bicentennial Haggadah' proclaims that the words therein set <lown are fash¬ ioned to "the custom of the German and Spanish Jews."' This is no thumbworn, dog-" eared Haggadah, one of the most precious possessions in families ot millions of Jewish emigrants fleeing Russia and Poland for Amer¬ ica in the late 19th and very early 2Qth centuries. No,-it is a solemn, neat handbook ol
prayer and supplication and celebration, quite in harmony with the unhurried pace or America's colonial Jews — the Sephardim and German-speaking, some directed here at the time of the .German revolution and some tearing the noble scars of oppression in Spain and Portugal and eventual flight from South America.
A different kind of Haggadah, but delightful to peruse as we all now con¬ centrate at festival time on
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submitted by the American Jewish Congress that would require the company to prepare a detailed report on its policy toward compliance with Arab boycott demahds. An AJCongress spokesman — noting that the Congress owned only five shares ot
.stock in the-company — hailed the result as "a" remarkable demonstration of public support of our campaign to expose pressures On American industry to surrender to the Arab boycott,". Edwin M. Epstein, associate dean of the school of business at the University of California and a leader of the AJCongress in San Francisco, presented the resolution v at the meeting.
In a statement following the vote, Epstein noted that the number of votes in favor of the AJCongress resolution
/'comfortably exceeded the
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omojE^I
- BRON1CLE
MAw/ Scrv'nfl Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community tor Over SO Years ^Jf1^
^82A?^Mi?E"l8T0R,CAU 80C,£TY ools.. o»; 43211 EioH
VOL. 54 NO. 15
APRILS. 1!>7<>-NISAN 8
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name , . .
■ilK'< " "V" '
Rabbinical Assembly Defeats Move To Replace Jewish Law, Standards Committee
«£'4*-j*S(*
Report Nixon Obsessed By Fear that 'Jewish Cabal' Was Out To Get Him
NEW YORK (WNS) - Former President. Njxon was obsessed jvith a fear that there was a "Jewish cabal" out to "get" him, according to "The Final Days," a new book by Bob
Woodward and t Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post-reporters who cracked the Watergate scandal. According to an excerpt in Newsweek, the authors said Secretary of StateiHenry A.
Temple Dinner Honors Rabbi
The first Tifereth Israel- Isrdel Dinner, off State honoring Kapbi David W. Zisenwine is • scheduled to
highly coveted David Ben- Gurion Award * will be conferred on Rabbi Zisenwine,
\The Israel Dinner of State, to be held under the aegis of y State of Israel Bonds.' will highlight .the kindling of 28 lights' .celebrating-- Israel's. 28th anniversary, The. Menorah used by the late President Zalman Shazar at Israels 25th anniversary, will be brought to Columbus for the .occasion, Ben
Kissinger "was convinced that the President was anti- Semitic." The two "reporters said: "As the son of German Jews who had fled the Nazis, he (Kissinger) » was particularly sensitive 'to what he regarded in Nixon as a dangerous brand of anti- Jewish prejudice born ol ignorance.'He saw in the President' an antagonistic, gut ,; reaction which stereotyped-; Jews and convinced,Nixon that they
• ' "iCONIINUEDON PAGE 15i
GROSSINGER. N.Y.. (JTA) - The 76th annual
convention of the Rabbinical
Assembly overwhelmingly rejected March 30 a resolution that would have - "dissolved and replaced the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards with a new committee to function on an advisory basis." The decision, made after a heated debate, was precipitated by recent
"rulings on the status of women in the synagogue, particularly a 1973 decision that women cotlld be counted in a minyan. The. Law
. Committee, . which was established in its present form in 1948, has made policy rulings for the guidance of Conservative rabbis on such subjects as
; marriage and divorce. But Mitzvahs, kashruth, the Agunah problem and mixed .
.seating, as welNas other aspects ol the place oi women in Judaism. According to Rabbi Seymour Siegel, ; Professor of -*^PheOlogy« loreigaaffairs minister. Mr. Ebari is currently a member of, the Israeli Knesset. ,
members, would have seriously curtailed the authority of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and changed the makeup of the membership ofa successor committee.
At an earlier session. Itabbi Wolle Kclman. who marked his 25th anniversary as a leader of Conservalivi** Judaism. expressed optimism about Ihe future or American Judaism, The executive vice-president of the luoo-mcmbcr association of Conservative rab|>is said lie doesn't "mourn for tin* good old days" but rather, feels that this is "one of Ihe most dynamic periods of • Jewish history." lie told the
1 convention delegates, in response to tributes - from many of his associates that Judaism despite, the problem of changing neighlHirhiMxls. economic inflation ami a. diminished birth rate, is at "the threshold of a crcatiu* age which has been unsurpassed. in recent centuries," Kvlimm noted particularly M\c.
-^phenomenon in Judaism, of- Hie steady flow of Ihe "biial
- leshuvah" ~ the returning
- ones - often vvhjisc parents disregarded religion*, with the new generation, rediscovering the laith of their grandparents. .He expressed Ix-lief tlmt a great many American Jews have - "moved away (rom an age suspicious^." ol emot ion. skeptical" about the
k (CONTINUEDON PAGE l?i
International Harvester Co. Gets Anti-Arab Boycott Vote
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) — In the first vote ol a nationwide campaign, shareholders ' of International Harvester last week cast 1,200,000 votes (or 5.2"percent of the total).in lavor of a resolution
A Bicentennial Haggadah
Goodman Margulies announced.
Rabbi Zisenwine.
and Julius co-chairmen.
Rabbi David Zisenv. ine
take place en Thursday/ evening, April 29lh/ at Tifereth Israel. One of the highest Israeli awards, the
David W.
Distinguished leader for the faith of Israel, (he people ol Israel and the land of Israel,,' Rabbi Zisenwine has won the love and esteem of Congregation
(•' iCONTvlNUEDONPAPttlfll
By Robert E.Segal (\ Seven Arts Feature)
"Its progenitors were an impoverished Condon hatter and' the repentant son of a Presbyterian minister."
With these inviting words, the Jewish Publication Society, in this season of the American > Bicentennial, Introduces a small but attractive reprint of the first American Passover Haggadah — "a modest volume in Hebrew and English."
Published-in New York in 1837 in Hebrew and English, this first American edition of the Bicentennial Haggadah' proclaims that the words therein set m
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